Hacker News on Wednesday, 22 January 2025

Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch(byran.ee)

3037 points by Hello9999901 1 year ago | 316 comments

A blog post by Byran describing how he designed and built a highly integrated open-source laptop from scratch, with CAD and GitHub links.

Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon(twitter.com)

1784 points by Ozarkian 1 year ago | 2068 comments

An X post from the Free_Ross account announcing that Ross Ulbricht received a full and unconditional pardon from President Trump.

Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years(krebsonsecurity.com)

925 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 228 comments

KrebsOnSecurity article on a MasterCard DNS server misconfiguration, a typo'd nameserver domain that went unnoticed for nearly five years until a researcher registered it.

TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid(tabboo.xyz)

682 points by thatsnotoptimal 1 year ago | 124 comments

Landing page for TabBoo, a Chrome extension that adds random jumpscares to websites you want to stop visiting, using aversive conditioning.

How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain(rustle.ca)

615 points by jahfer 1 year ago | 279 comments

An article on improving home office lighting to reduce eye strain, illustrated with a 3D-rendered room showing lamps and a desk setup.

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)(jofreeman.com)

365 points by yamrzou 1 year ago | 144 comments

Jo Freeman's 1970 essay "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" arguing that leaderless groups develop hidden informal elites, hosted on her personal site.

Life lessons from the first half-century of my career(cacm.acm.org)

358 points by zdw 1 year ago | 137 comments

Communications of the ACM opinion piece by David A. Patterson sharing 16 life lessons and nine magic words from 50 years of his computing career.

My Struggle with Doom Scrolling(allthatjazz.me)

299 points by saeedesmaili 1 year ago | 288 comments

Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama(evan.widloski.com)

290 points by Evidlo 1 year ago | 106 comments

Simple CPU Design(simplecpudesign.com)

288 points by _benj 1 year ago | 45 comments

F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025(f-droid.org)

288 points by mappu 1 year ago | 73 comments

C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us(edgedb.com)

278 points by msully4321 1 year ago | 305 comments

Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of Data Unconstitutional(eff.org)

276 points by janandonly 1 year ago | 52 comments

Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies(resobscura.substack.com)

241 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 196 comments

Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark(stratoshark.org)

240 points by geraldcombs 1 year ago | 41 comments

What are these bumps on the top of a pull-tab can?(old.reddit.com)

240 points by mkmk 1 year ago | 38 comments

How shut-down Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear(sfgate.com)

233 points by Stratoscope 1 year ago | 197 comments

Open Heart Protocol(openheart.fyi)

214 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 93 comments

Isolating complexity is the essence of successful abstractions(v5.chriskrycho.com)

213 points by chriskrycho 1 year ago | 65 comments

OpenAI's o1 Playing Codenames(suveenellawela.com)

213 points by suveen_ellawela 1 year ago | 120 comments

DHS removes all members of cyber security advisory boards, halts investigations(bsky.app)

209 points by BHSPitMonkey 1 year ago | 252 comments

So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?(ahmet.im)

209 points by gokhan 1 year ago | 102 comments

I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey(ertu.dev)

206 points by ertucetin 1 year ago | 40 comments

OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold(technologyreview.com)

184 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 122 comments

Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas(fiber.googleblog.com)

159 points by mfiguiere 1 year ago | 166 comments

Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML(softwaredoug.com)

155 points by fzliu 1 year ago | 68 comments

Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need(arxiv.org)

136 points by eunos 1 year ago | 93 comments

Lossless Compression of Vector IDs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search(arxiv.org)

134 points by fzliu 1 year ago | 6 comments

Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad(github.com)

124 points by itkeman 1 year ago | 88 comments

Minimal 64x4 Home Computer(github.com)

122 points by zdw 1 year ago | 26 comments

Her dad, the 10k records he left behind and a viral lesson in grief(washingtonpost.com)

120 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 61 comments

Why is zero plural? (2024)(ell.stackexchange.com)

114 points by not_a_boat 1 year ago | 177 comments

Urban legend: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers(geekhistory.com)

113 points by bschne 1 year ago | 70 comments

A FPGA friendly 32 bit RISC-V CPU implementation(github.com)

110 points by _benj 1 year ago | 48 comments

Hands-on Assignment – Therac-25 (2007)(web.mit.edu)

97 points by luu 1 year ago | 48 comments

The ultra-fast cancer treatments which could replace conventional radiotherapy(bbc.com)

95 points by bentocorp 1 year ago | 2 comments

Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas (2023)(arxiv.org)

94 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 14 comments

Chatbox: Cross-platform desktop client for ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs(github.com)

85 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 16 comments

Open-source browser port of Pitfall from the Atari 2600(meatfighter.com)

75 points by OuterVale 1 year ago | 22 comments

Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code (2021)(bart.degoe.de)

75 points by matt_daemon 1 year ago | 16 comments

I wrote my own “proper” programming language (2020)(mukulrathi.com)

74 points by upmind 1 year ago | 20 comments

Open Socrates by Agnes Callard review – a design for life(theguardian.com)

66 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 31 comments

Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body(arstechnica.com)

58 points by nxobject 1 year ago | 36 comments

Arm releases Chiplet System Architecture spec beta version(newsroom.arm.com)

57 points by fork-bomber 1 year ago | 15 comments

PyVista(pyvista.org)

54 points by belter 1 year ago | 7 comments

Show HN: BrowserAI – Run LLMs directly in browser using WebGPU (open source)(github.com)

50 points by shreyash_gupta 1 year ago | 13 comments

The first release of OpenVox, the OSS implementation of Puppet(overlookinfratech.com)

50 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 23 comments

Show HN: I made a service to convert WordPress blogs to Hugo(wp2hugo.blogdb.org)

49 points by symkat 1 year ago | 33 comments

Using Linear Programming to find optimal builds in League of Legend(versary.town)

47 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 17 comments

The Hunt for Error -22(tweedegolf.nl)

47 points by mpalme 1 year ago | 13 comments

Show HN: Habby – A straightforward bullet journal with habit tracking(habby.day)

46 points by acarreras 1 year ago | 14 comments

DIY Web Archiving Zine(zinebakery.com)

43 points by marvinborner 1 year ago | 6 comments

Evo: Version control that works the way you think(github.com)

43 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 33 comments

Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks (2024)(krebsonsecurity.com)

43 points by lxm 1 year ago | 29 comments

LoongArch64 Subjective Higlights(0x80.pl)

39 points by camel-cdr 1 year ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Puck 0.18 adds drag-and-drop for CSS grid and Flexbox(github.com)

38 points by chrisvxd 1 year ago | 4 comments

Do cookie-free analytics need cookie banners?(jfagerberg.me)

36 points by birjolaxew 1 year ago | 39 comments

Data Branching for Batch Job Systems(isaacjordan.me)

36 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 6 comments

Fluorescent Mineral Photography(naturesrainbows.com)

34 points by jazzyjackson 1 year ago | 5 comments

A Spy Satellite You've Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War(spectrum.ieee.org)

34 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 3 comments